Reports:

IN A FARM IN VENDEE

The whole familybarricadesand gets no sleep

because "a flying saucer was watching them"

Fontenay-le-Comte, Oct. 25.The flying-saucer obsession continues to ravage the country. The best example is furnished by a farm family at St Hilaire-les-Loges (Vendee), who, terrorised, lived through a dramatic night.

Mrs. Boeuf had just milked her cows for the night, soon after dusk, when, as she emerged from the stable, she caught sight of a motionless luminous disc, at an altitude difficult to determine.

"The saucer seemed to be looking at me", the farmer woman was to say later on, when she described the incident.

Abandoning her milkpails, Mrs. Boeuf ran to warn her husband and her three children. They too were able to observe the phenomenon, whose intensity was such that it "shone like the full moon." The saucer now seemed to manifest an intention of coming closer to the ground, and Mrs. Boeuf expressed the idea that "Martians" might land.

Seized by panic, she decided to barricade herself in the farm building.

This was done. All lights were put out and all shutters closed, and the family took refuge in the living room. It was only at the first rays of dawn that neighbors, surprised by the silence which reigned in the house, ventured to the farmhouse.

After the Boeuf family was calmed down and the farmer woman cheered with a small glass of brandy, everyone resumed his normal occupation.

In the meantime, the menacing disc had disappeared without leaving any traces.

Mrs. Boeuf was coming out of her farmhouse when she saw a luminous disk in the sky and called her family. When everyone saw the object come closer, they locked all doors and spent a sleepless night. They did not observe the object's departure. (France-Soir, 26 oct 1954) (81).

One French family acted differently than some. At the Boeuf farm outside St-Hilaire-des-Loges, the woman of the household happened to spot a luminous disc hovering over the property. She summoned the rest of the family to come and see the remarkable sight. Everyone rushed outdoors and stared at the thing in the sky, but when the object suddenly moved toward them, the family became panicky and rushed back inside the house, barring the doors and windows. For the rest of the night no one slept. 195.

The Belgian ufologist indicates that in 1954, on October 23, in France in St Hilaire des Loges, "Mrs. Boeuf came out of her farm when she saw a luminous disc in the sky. She called her family. When they noted that the object approached them the witnesses closed all the doors. They spent one night without sleeping. They did not see the departure of the object."

1954 - Mrs. Boeuf was coming out of her farmhouse in the evening in St. Hilaire-des-Loges, Vendee, France when she saw a luminous disc hovering in the sky and called to her family. When everyone saw the object come closer they locked all the doors and spent a sleepless night inside. They did not observe the object's departure, but noticed an unnatural silence that pervaded the area. (Sources: France-Soir, October 26, 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 237, case 301).

This case also went through an attempt at counter-investigation on behalf of the ufologist Michel Figuet, which failed.

With the end of October, the flap will subside and the phenomenon gradually disappeared from the French and Vendean skies. This observation of Saint Hilaire des Loges is thus at the end of the flap, even if others will still occur. Here is the article:

THE FLYING
SAUCERS

New and numerous appearances of unidentified machines in the sky were recorded during the past week.

Here are some testimonies:

A luminous lampshade
above
St-Hilaire-des-Loges

Wednesday, at approximately 08:30 p.m., Mrs. Boeuf, farmer at the farm of Aubire, community of Saint Hilaire les Loges, came to milk her cows when suddenly she saw a luminous machine having the shape of a lamp-shade in the sky, which oscillated and launched gleams at its lower part.

Mrs. Boeuf alerted her husband and her three children as well as the neighbors, the Bobin man and wife, who all saw, a few moments later, the mysterious machine.

The article is short and it appears difficult today to learn more on this flying machine. During the Seventies, ufologist Michel Figuet tried a counter-investigation whereas he sought to build a list of cases for his own catalogues.

Joining a mail to me in 1997 he wrote about this case: "There, I found the farm six years ago (tis is about files going up to the Seventies), but the witnesses systematically refused to talk to me about what they saw?! (These were indeed the same witnesses.)"

There is however something curious because Michel Figuet dates the incident from October 23 whereas the article talks about Wednesday, that is to say on October 27. It may be that there is a confusion or that two observations are joined together here. However the case has appeared first in France-Soir for October 26, 1954, which makes the date of the 27 impossible.

That was what I can publish today on this observation made in Saint Hilaire des Loges on October 27, 1954.

The website indicates that on 23 October 1954 at 22:00 in Saint-Hilaire-des-Loges, France, "A luminous disk was seen in the sky." "Mrs. Boeuf was coming out of her farmhouse in the evening in St. Hilaire-des-Loges, France when she saw a luminous disc hovering in the sky and called to her family. When everyone saw the object come closer they locked all the doors and spent a sleepless night inside. They did not observe the object's departure."

And: "Mrs. Boeuf was coming out of her farmhouse when she saw a luminous disk in the sky and called her family. When everyone saw the object come closer, they locked all doors and spent a sleepless night. They did not observe the object's departure."

And: "A flying disc was observed. One saucer was observed by more than three witnesses in a yard for over one minute. A masked sound was heard."

*Oct. 23, 1954 -Mrs. Boeuf was coming out of her farmhouse in the evening in St. Hilaire-des-Loges, Vendee, France when she saw a luminous disc hovering in the sky and called to her family. When everyone saw the object come closer they locked all the doors and spent a sleepless night inside. They did not observe the object's departure, but noticed an unnatural silence that pervaded the area. (Sources: France-Soir, October 26, 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 237, case 301).